268 NLRB 258
Technicolor Government Services
DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Technicolor
Government
Services,
Inc.,'
South
Dakota Operations and Motion Picture Labora-
tory Technicians, Local 780, and International
Photographers of the Motion Picture Industries,
Local 666, International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine
Operators of the United States and Canada,
AFL-CIO. Case 18-CA-7638
16 November 1983
DECISION AND ORDER
BY CHAIRMAN DOTSON AND MEMBERS
ZIMMERMAN AND HUNTER
On 5 May 1983 Administrative Law Judge Rich-
ard L. Denison issued the attached decision. The
Respondent filed exceptions and a supporting brief,
and the General Counsel filed exceptions and a
supporting brief.
The National Labor Relations Board has delegat-
ed its authority in this proceeding to a three-
member panel.
The Board has considered the decision and the
record in light of the exceptions and briefs and has
decided to affirm the judge's rulings, findings, and
conclusions and to adopt the recommended Order,
as modified. '
ORDER
The National Labor Relations Board adopts the
recommended Order of the administrative law
judge as modified below and orders that the Re-
spondent, Technicolor Government Services, Inc.,
South
Dakota Operations,
Sioux
Falls, South
Dakota, its officers, agents, successors, and assigns,
shall take the action set forth in the Order as modi-
fied.
1. Substitute the following for paragraph 2(b).
"(b) Offer any bargaining unit employees ad-
versely affected by the unilateral changes in wages,
working conditions, and other terms and conditions
of employment instituted on or about 13 January
1982, immediate and full reinstatement to their
former status, without prejudice to their seniority
or other rights and privileges previously enjoyed,
and make them whole for any loss of earnings they
may have suffered, in the manner set forth in the
section of this Decision entitled 'The Remedy."'
2. Substitute the attached notice for that of the
administrative law judge.
I We have modified par. 2(b) of the judge's recommended Order in
order to more appropriately remedy the violation found.
268 NLRB No. 33
APPENDIX
NOTICE To EMPLOYEES
POSTED BY ORDER OF THE
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
An Agency of the United States Government
The National Labor Relations Board has found
that we violated the National Labor Relations Act
and has ordered us to post and abide by this notice.
WE WILL NOT refuse to bargain collectively with
Motion Picture Laboratory Technicians, Local 780,
and International Photographers of the Motion Pic-
ture Industries, Local 666, International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture
Machine
Operators of the United
States and
Canada, AFL-CIO, as the exclusive representative
of the employees in the bargaining unit below by
unilaterally changing the wages, working condi-
tions, and other terms and conditions of employ-
ment of bargaining unit employees without notice
to and consultation with their Union. The appro-
priate unit is:
All full-time and regular part-time employees
employed
in the photographic
laboratory,
product inspection, data management, techni-
cal engineering photographic laboratory main-
tenance, center services and logistics sections,
including plant clericals, employed at the Re-
spondent's Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility;
excluding employees employed in user services
operations, systems development, systems soft-
ware, technical engineering computer mainte-
nance, technical communications, applications,
training and assistance and data analysis sec-
tions, office clerical employees, confidential
employees, guards, assistant supervisors and
supervisors as defined in the Act.
WE WILL NOT in any like or related manner
interfere with, restrain, or coerce you in the exer-
cise of the rights guaranteed you by Section 7 of
the Act.
WE WILL rescind the changes we made in the
wages, working conditions, and other terms and
conditions of employment of our bargaining unit
employees serving as leadpersons, otherwise known
as "leads," on or about 13 January 1982, without
notice to and bargaining with their Union.
WE WILL offer those bargaining unit employees
adversely affected by the changes made on or
about 13 January 1982 to leadpersons immediate
and full reinstatement to their former status and
will make them whole for any loss of earnings they
may have suffered, including interest, as a result of
our unilateral action described above.
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WE WILL bargain with Motion Picture Laborato-
ry Technicians, Local 780, and International Pho-
tographers of the Motion Picture Industries, Local
666, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em-
ployees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of
the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, as the
exclusive representative of our employees in the
above-appropriate unit with respect to any pro-
posed changes in our bargaining unit employees'
wages, hours, working conditions, and other terms
and conditions of employment.
TECHNICOLOR
GOVERNMENT
SERV-
ICES,
INC.,
SOUTH
DAKOTA OPER-
ATIONS
DECISION
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
RICHARD L. DENISON, Administrative Law Judge:
This case was heard at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on
December 1, 1982, based on an original charge filed by
the Union on March 22, 1982. The complaint, issued
May 25, 1982, as amended, alleges that Technicolor
Government Services, Inc., South Dakota Operations,'
the Respondent, violated Section 8(a)(l) and (5) of the
Act in that on or about January 1982 the Respondent
unilaterally changed the wages, benefits, and conditions
of employment of its leadpersons by abolishing certain
leadperson classifications, transferring the work previous-
ly performed by leadpersons in the bargaining unit to su-
pervisors or other nonunit employees, and by reducing
the wages of leadpersons.
The Respondent's answer denies the appropriateness of
the certified bargaining unit and the allegations of unfair
labor practices alleged in the complaint. Based on the
entire record in the case, including my consideration of
the briefs and observation of the witnesses, I make the
following
FINDINGS OF FACT
I. JURISDICTION AND LABOR ORGANIZATION
Based on the allegations of fact in paragraphs 2(a), (b),
(c), (d), (e), and 3 of the complaint admitted by the Re-
spondent's answer, I find that the Respondent is, and has
been at all times material herein, an employer engaged in
commerce within the meaning of Section 2(2), (6), and
(7) of the Act, and that the Union is a labor organization
within the meaning of Section 2(5) of the Act.
II. THE UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
The Respondent provides technical support for the
Earth Resources Observation System, which processes
data received from landsat satellites, and reproduces
copies of this data and aerial photographs pursuant to a
contract with the United States Government, Depart-
ment of the Interior.
I The name of the Respondent appears as amended at the hearing.
As alleged in the complaint and admitted in the
answer, on or about September 21, 1978, a majority of
the Respondent's employees in the appropriate collec-
tive-bargaining unit, through a secret-ballot election con-
ducted under the supervision of the Regional Director
for Region 18 of the National Labor Relations Board,
designated and selected the Union as their collective-bar-
gaining representative. On October 27, 1978, the Union
was certified as the exclusive collective-bargaining repre-
sentative of the employees in the said unit.2
Following the Union's certification the parties entered
into
negotiations to achieve
a collective-bargaining
agreement. As of the last bargaining session before the
hearing in this case, held September 23, 1982, no agree-
ment had been reached.
For a long time prior to the Union's certification the
Respondent has utilized certain of its skilled employees,
who occupy classifications within the bargaining unit, as
leadpersons, or "leads." For example, Printing Process-
ing Specialist B Irene Mildred DeNeui credibly testified
that she had worked as a lead since 1974. The record
shows that a "lead" is not a job classification, in the
usual usage of the term, but is actually a pay status
whereby an employee receives an additional 25 cents per
hour for the period of time in which he or she assumes
an assignment which relieves a supervisor of minor su-
pervisory functions, such as training and other day-to-
day routine duties required to run the production proc-
ess.3 According to the credited testimony by Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager of South Dakota Operations
Joseph N. Pfliger and Vice President and Department
Project Manager Harold Lockwood, as illustrated by Re-
spondent's Exhibits 3 through 8, inclusive, leads are ap-
pointed pursuant to a memorandum of request and justifi-
cation by the supervisor, and a review and approval by
Pfliger and Lockwood. Respondent's Exhibits 3 through
8 consist of memoranda showing approximately 250 des-
ignations, removals, and changes of leads which oc-
curred in the years
1977 through
1982. Andrew J.
Younger, the Union's business manager, agreed in his tes-
timony that since the Union has been certified it has been
notified from time to time of the changes which the
Company had made with respect to leads. Nevertheless,
Younger explained that the Union had never before pur-
2 The certified unit is:
All full-time and regular part-time employees employed in the
photographic laboratory, product inspection, data management, tech-
nical engineering photographic laboratory maintenance, center serv-
ices and logistics sections, including plant clericals. employed at the
Respondent's Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility; excluding employ-
ees employed in user services operations, systems development, sys-
tems software. technical engineering computer maintenance, techni-
cal communications, applications, training and assistance and data
analysis sections, office clerical employees, confidential employees,
guards, assistant supervisors and supervisors as defined in the Act.
The Respondent continues to maintain the original position it espoused
during the representation proceeding, that the above unit, found to be ap-
propriate by the Regional Director in his Decision and Direction of Elec-
tion, is not an appropriate unit However, the parties agree that a request
for review of that unit determination was filed and denied by the Board
I am bound by the Board's decision. The unit is appropriate.
3 The Respondent's policy setting forth in detail the responsibilities and
duties of leads is contained in a memorandum dated March 20, 1978, in
evidence as G.C Exhs 2(a) and (b)
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sued the issue of not being given advance notice and an
opportunity to bargain about these matters because pre-
vious designations, changes, and removals had not been
considered by the Union to be detrimental to the inter-
ests of bargaining unit employees, and because there had
been no previous complaints concerning this procedure.
An examination of Respondent's Exhibits 2 through 8
shows that as of the beginning of January 1982 the bar-
gaining unit employees serving as leads in the Respond-
ent's various department were:
Department
Center Services
Data Management
Logistics
Photo Lab
Quality Assurance
Employee
K. Jorgenson
Glenda Theel
Dean Tyler
Mary Weinkeimer
Dwayne Wipf
Douglas Brock
Charles Wentler
Irene DeNeui
Dona Kaacke
Kris Higgins
Scott Meidl
Edward Peters
J. Powers
Lloyd Christian
Bonnie Knuteson
Annette McClaren
At the beginning of January 1982, the Respondent
drastically reduced its use of leads. It is undisputed that
this action was taken solely because of cost reductions
necessitated by the new contract between the Respond-
ent and the U.S. Government. Thus, on January 13,
1982, Project Manager Lockwood issued a memorandum
to the Respondent's supervisors stating:
Concurrently with the beginning of our new con-
tract year with the Government, we are asking you
to reexamine Administrative Procedure AP-2.7, Re-
sponsibilities and Duties of a Lead.
The following definition will be followed when as-
signing leads (from AP-2.7):
"Lead: A Lead is any employee assigned the re-
sponsibility of directing the routine work oper-
ations to provide supplemental assistance to the
Supervisor; to direct the work effort when a su-
pervisor is not assigned to a particular shift; or to
provide the necessary operational guidance when
the Supervisor is absent."
In general leads will be appointed only when a su-
pervisor is not available.
The results envisioned are:
1. Employee assignment, counselling and devel-
opment will be done exclusively by supervisors
or their assistants.
2. Senior operations technicians may still perform
in that capacity; i.e., helping less senior techni-
cians.
In compliance with this operational philosophy,
please notify Project Management of your proposed
lead assignments.
Thirteen of the sixteen bargaining unit employees
listed above who were serving as leads at that time testi-
fied that in early Janaury 1982, at various staff meetings
conducted by the Respondent's supervision, they were
informed of the loss of their lead status pursuant to the
new policy enunciated in Lockwood's memorandum. 4
As a result of this change these employees now serve as
leads only occasionally when their supervisor or assistant
supervisor is absent. They have lost the additional 25
cents per hour they formerly received, including holi-
days, vacations, and other such periods off the clock,
and now receive this wage supplement only on the rare
occasions when they are selected to serve as a lead in the
absence of the supervisor and when actually working on
the clock.
The Respondent's severe reductions in the use of lead
pay status was brought to the attention of Business Man-
ager Younger by Irene DeNeui through a phone call to
Younger's office at Cocoa Beach, Florida. It is conceded
that Younger had no advance notice whatsoever from
the Company. Younger called John Burke, the Respond-
ent's attorney in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and inquired
concerning the matter. Professing no knowledge of the
situation, Burke promised to check with the Respondent,
and discuss the situation with Younger at the next nego-
tiations session in Florida. At this meeting Burke told
Younger that the Respondent had removed all the leads,
not just at Sioux Falls, but throughout the entire Compa-
ny. Younger adhered to the position that the Respondent
had no right to remove leads and lead pay without bar-
gaining with the Union. The discussion ended with
Burke observing that Younger would need to bring the
matter up at the next Local bargaining session in Sioux
Falls on March 10. At that meeting Younger again raised
the issue of the reductions of leads. The Company ex-
plained that its action had been prompted by the savings
in costs necessitated by the accepted contract bid it had
made to the Deparment of the Interior. Younger insisted
that the Union had a right to negotiate concerning leads,
and requested the restoration of the employees' lost lead
status with backpay, pending resolution of the issue
through negotiation. According to Younger, Project
Manager Lockwood refused, stating that the question
was not negotiable. Lockwood, who agreed that he at-
tended the March meeting, testified that he did not re-
member any discussion of the subject of leads at that
meeting. I credit Younger, whose testimony is corrobo-
rated by that of the Respondent's vice president and gen-
eral manager, Joseph N. Pfliger. Pfliger remembered
Younger protesting the reduction of leads at this session,
and requesting that they be reinstated. According to
4 Employees Kay Jorgenson, Donna Haacke, and J. Powers did not
testify.
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Pfliger, the Company responded that it believed its ac-
tions were appropriate within the prerogative of manage-
ment, and it did not intend to reinstate the leads.
On March 22, 1982, Younger filed charges on behalf
of the Union with Region 8 of the Board alleging that
the Respondent violated Section 8(a)(1) and (5) of the
Act by its action with respect to leads.
The final bargaining session prior to the hearing in this
matter took place on September 23, 1982. At this time,
Younger again requested the reinstitution of lead status
for the affected employees with backpay pending settle-
ment of the issue by negotiation. Both Younger and
Pfliger agree that Pfliger answered to the effect that the
NLRB hearing was pending on the situation, and, there-
fore, the Company really did not care to discuss the
topic of leads.
Section 8(d) of the Act defines collective bargaining as
"the performance of the mutual obligation of the em-
ployer and the representative of the employees to meet
at reasonable times and confer in good faith with respect
to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of em-
ployment, or the negotiation of an agreement or any
question arising thereunder, and the execution of a writ-
ten contract incorporating any agreement reached if re-
quested by either party ....
" Thus, over many years,
through constant refinement of the case law by the
Board and the courts, many of the potentional topics for
bargaining have come to be catalogued in one of two
broad categories, either mandatory or permissive. Man-
datory subjects are those concerning which the respec-
tive parties must, on request, bargain, or else risk being
found to be in violation of Section 8(a)(5) of the Act. It
is virtually axiomatic at this point in time that matters di-
rectly affecting employees' wages, hours, and terms and
conditions of employment are mandatory subjects for
bargaining. In this case it is clear that the employees' loss
of lead pay and the elimination of their leadperson
duties, tantamount to a demotion, falls well within the
defined parameters of manadatory subjects for bargain-
ing. The fact that in the past the Respondent felt obligat-
ed to and did notify the Union, albeit after the fact, of
appointments, changes, and elimination of leads, is a tacit
admission of the existence of this obligation. It is also
well settled that unilateral changes in wages, hours, and
terms and conditions of employment, during a period in
which an employer is required by law to bargain with
the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of its
employees, violates Section 8(a)(5) of the Act. NLRB v.
Katz, 369 U.S. 736, 747 (1962); NLRB v. C & C Plywood
Corp., 385 U.S. 421 (1967). This general principal gov-
erns even when an independent showing of overall sub-
jective bad faith is lacking. Likewise, a demonstration of
economic expediency, even in good faith, does not re-
lieve the obligation. Fleming Mfg. Co., 119 NLRB 452,
465 (1957).
· However, the Respondent argues that in this instance
it has been relieved of its obligation to bargain. The Re-
spondent urges that its collective-bargaining agreements
at other locations, specifically Houston, contain clauses
which, in effect, give management virtual autonomy with
respect to the appointment, change, and removal of
leads. Likewise, the Respondent cites the case of Boise
Cascade Corp., 263 NLRB 480 (1982), as supporting its
position that its right to unilaterally designate, alter, or
eliminate the status of leads is a management prerogative.
I disagree. The Respondent overlooks the fact that in
both instances it cites as precedent there was in existence
a collective-bargaining agreement with a specific provi-
sion permitting the Respondent to act unilaterally. For
the Respondent to eliminate lead status and lead pay pur-
suant to the specific provisions of a contract arrived at
through collective bargaining with the employees' lawful
representative is one thing, but to unilaterally change
employees' wages, working conditions, and terms and
conditions of employment without affording the Union
any opportunity to bargain whatsoever is quite another.
The Respondent also contends that the Union, by
virtue of the fact that it had not previously requested
bargaining concerning leads and had not previously
made an issue of the many individual lead changes which
occurred between 1977 and 1982, waived bargaining
concerning this question, or, at least, acquiesced to the
Respondent's actions. I also reject this argument. The
Board has consistently held that for the employer to es-
tablish by way of consultation and bargaining, the sur-
rounding facts and circumstances must demonstrate that
the relinguishment of the right is clear and unmistakable.
McDonnell Douglas Corp., 224 NLRB 881, 887 (1976);
Pepsi-Cola Distributing Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee, 241
NLRB 869 (1979). Accordingly, the defense of waiver
has been rejected, absent an explicit waiver, even in
cases where the collective-bargaining agreement con-
tained a management rights' clause which made no spe-
cific reference to the area changed, and, further, in cir-
cumstances where the contract contained a zipper clause.
Latex Industries, 252 NLRB 855, 857-858 (1980). Indeed,
there is no contention that the Union explicitly waived
its right to negotiate at Sioux Falls concerning leads.
Rather, I am asked to infer such a waiver from clauses
which exist in other negotiated contracts at other loca-
tions coupled with previous inaction on the part of the
employee's representation. This the applicable case law
clearly prohibits me from doing. Moreover, there is no
evidence that the Union acquiesced in the Respondent's
virtual wholesale elimination of its leadperson program
at Sioux Falls. As Business Manager Younger explained,
the set of circumstances which the Union and the em-
ployees in the bargaining unit faced in January 1982 was
totally different from those confronting the Union with
respect to leads at any time before. Thus, as Younger
stated, previous individual changes in lead status, al-
though many in number, had never posed a threat to the
work of the bargaining unit, nor had any employee, prior
to DeNeui's phone call in January 1982, ever focused the
Union's attention on the potential problem such changes
represented. If the Respondent's viewpoint concerning
what constitutes acquiescence were accepted, a union
would necessarily have to request bargaining in every
conceivable area in which a potential problem could
arise in order to preserve its right to bargain whenever
an actual problem in that area might arise. The result
would be a terrible waste in time and resources for both
unions and management. In my view, such reasoning
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lacks merit. Lastly, it is undisputed that the Respondent
flatly refused to negotiate with the Union concerning the
leadperson issue at both the March and September bar-
gaining sessions. I therefore find that the Respondent
violated Section 8(a)(1) and (5) of the Act as alleged in
the complaint.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. The Respondent is an employer engaged in com-
merce within the meaning of Section 2(2), (6), and (7) of
the Act.
2. The Union is a labor organization within the mean-
ing of Section 2(5) of the Act.
3. All full-time and regular part-time employees em-
ployed in the photographic laboratory, product inspec-
tion, data management,
technical engineering photo-
graphic laboratory maintenance, center services and lo-
gistics sections, including plant clericals, employed at the
Respondent's Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility; exclud-
ing employees employed in user services operations, sys-
tems development, systems software, technical engineer-
ing computer maintenance, technical communications,
applications, training and assistance and data analysis sec-
tions, office clerical employees, confidential employees,
guards, assistant supervisors and supervisors as defined in
the Act, constitute a unit appropriate for the purposes of
collective bargaining within the meaning of Section 9(b)
of the Act.
4. At all times since October 27, 1978, and continuing
to date, the Union has been the representative for the
purpose of collective bargaining of the employees in the
unit described above, and by virtue of Section 9(a) of the
Act has been, and is now, the exclusive representative of
all employees in said unit for the purposes of collective
bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, and other terms and conditions of employ-
ment.
5. By unilaterally changing the wages, working condi-
tions, and other terms and conditions of employment of
its bargaining unit employees serving as leadpersons, oth-
erwise known as leads, on and after early January 1982,
without prior notice to and consultaton with the Union,
the Respondent violated Section 8(a)(5) and (1) of the
Act.
6. The aforesaid unfair labor practices are unfair labor
practices affecting commerce within the meaning of Sec-
tion 2(6) and (7) of the Act.
THE REMEDY
Having found that the Respondent has engaged in cer-
tain unfair labor practices, it will be recommended that
the Respondent cease and desist therefrom and take cer-
tain affirmative action designated to effectuate the poli-
cies of the Act. Having found that the Respondent vio-
lated Section 8(a)(5) and (1) of the Act by unilaterally
changing the wages, working conditions, and other terms
and conditions of employment of its bargaining unit em-
ployees serving as leadpersons, known as leads, on or
about January 13, 1982, and thereafter, without notice to
or bargaining with the Union, it will be recommended
that the Respondent rescind these unilateral changes,
and, henceforth, notify and bargain with the Union con-
cerning any contemplated changes in the wages, hours,
working conditions, and other terms and conditions of
employment of bargaining unit employees. It will also be
recommended that the Respondent restore the status quo
which existed at the time of its unlawful actions by re-
scinding its January 1982 curtailment of lead status and
pay, as described herein. Accordingly, the Respondent
will be ordered to offer any bargaining unit employees
adversely affected by this action immediate and full rein-
statement to their former positions and make them whole
for any loss of earnings they may have suffered, includ-
ing interest, in the manner prescribed in F. W Woolworth
Co., 90 NLRB 289 (1950), and Florida Steel Corp., 231
NLRB 117 (1977). 5
The Respondent will also be ordered to post an appro-
priate notice.
On the foregoing findings of fact, conclusions of law,
and the entire record, and pursuant to Section 10(c) of
the Act, I issue the following recommended
ORDER6
The Respondent, Technicolor Government Services,
Inc., South Dakota Operations,
Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, its officers, agents, successors, and assigns, shall
I. Cease and desist from
(a) Refusing to bargain collectively with Motion Pic-
ture Laboratory Technicians, Local 780, and Internation-
al Photographers of the Motion Picture Industries, Local
666, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employ-
ees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the
United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, as the exclusive
representative of the employees in the bargaining unit
below by unilaterally changing the wages, working con-
ditions, and other terms and conditions of employment,
of its leadperson, otherwise known as leads, without
notice to or consultation with the Union. The appropri-
ate unit is:
All full-time and regular part-time employees em-
ployed in the photographic laboratory, product in-
spection, data management, technical engineering
photographic laboratory maintenance, center serv-
ices and logistics sections, including plant clericals,
employed at the Respondent's Sioux Falls, South
Dakota facility; excluding employees employed in
user services operations, systems development, sys-
tems
software,
technical
engineering
computer
maintenance,
tehcnical communications,
applica-
tions, training and assistance and data analysis sec-
tions, office clerical employees, confidential em-
ployees, guards, assistant supervisors and supervi-
sors as defined in the Act.
See generally Isis Plumbing Co., 138 NLRB 716 (1962).
6 If no exceptions are filed as provided by Sec. 102.46 of the Board's
Rules and Regulations, the findings, conclusions, and recommended
Order shall, as provided in Sec. 102.48 of the Rules, be adopted by the
Board and all objections to them shall be deemed waived for all pur-
poses.
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(b) In any like or related manner interfering with, re-
straining, or coercing employees in the exercise of the
rights guaranteed them in Section 7 of the Act.
2. Take the following affirmative action designed to ef-
fectuate the policies of the Act.
(a) Rescind the unilateral changes in wages, working
conditions, and other terms and conditions of employ-
ment instituted on or about January 13, 1982, with re-
spect to its bargaining unit employees serving as leadper-
sons, otherwise known as leads.
(b) Offer any bargaining unit employees who lost their
status as leadpersons, or leads, as a result of the unilateral
changes in wages, working conditions, and other terms
and conditions of employment instituted on or about Jan-
uary 13, 1982, immediate and full reinstatement to their
former status, without prejudice to their seniority and
other rights and privileges previously enjoyed, and make
them whole for any loss of earnings they may have suf-
fered in the manner set forth in the section of this Deci-
sion entitled "The Remedy."
(c) On request, bargain with the Union with respect to
any contemplated changes in wages, hours, working con-
ditions, or other terms and conditions of employment of
bargaining unit employees, and if an agreement
is
reached embody any understanding reached in the signed
agreement.
(d) Preserve and, on request, make available to the
Board or its agents for examination and copying, all pay-
roll records, social security payment records, timecards,
personnel records and reports, and all other records nec-
essary to analyze the amount of backpay due under the
terms of this Order.
(e) Post at its Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility copies
of the attached notice marked "Appendix." 7 Copies of
the notice, on forms provided by the Regional Director
for Region 18, after being signed by an authorized repre-
sentative of the Respondent, shall be posted by the Re-
spondent immediately upon receipt and maintained for 60
consecutive days in conspicuous places including all
places where notices to employees are customarily
posted. Reasonable steps shall be taken by the Respond-
ent to ensure that said notices are not altered, defaced, or
covered by any other material.
(f) Notify the Regional Director for Region 18, in
writing, within 20 days from the date of this Order, what
steps the Respondent has taken to comply.
I If this Order is enforced by a Judgment of a United States Court of
Appeals, the words in the notice reading "Posted by Order of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board" shall read "Posted Pursuant to a Judgment
of the United States Court of Appeals Enforcing an Order of the Nation-
al Labor Relations Board."
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